[Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals by Maria Mitchell]@TWC D-Link bookMaria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals CHAPTER IV 35/46
The black woman bows--she is distinguished by her neat dress, her clean plaid head-dress, and her upright carriage.
It would be well for some of our young ladies to carry burdens on their heads, even to the risk of flattening the instep, if by that means they could get the straight back of a slave. "Mrs.W., who takes us out to drive, comes with her black coachman and a little boy.
The coachman wears white gloves, and looks like a gentleman. The little boy rings door-bells when we stop. "When it rained the other day, Mrs.W.dropped the window of the carriage, and desired the two to put on their shawls, for fear they would take cold.
They are plainly a great care to their owners, for they are like children and cannot take care of themselves; and yet in another way the masters are like children, from the constant waiting upon that they receive.
One would think, where one class does all the thinking and the other all the working, that masters would be active thinkers and slaves ready workers; but neither result seems to happen--both are listless and inactive. "May 3.
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